I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.